Notebook
Wolfpack teams excel at cross country
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Both N.C. State cross country teams finished second at the ACC Championships on Friday morning. Each team placed four runners on the All-ACC team, bringing the program to 245 All-ACC Selections.
Sam Parson, Meron Simon, Sebastian Hanson and Bakri Abushouk earned All-ACC mentions on the men’s team, and Ryen Frazier, Rachel Koon, Kaitlyn Kramer and Erika Kemp earned the honor on the women’s team.
The 12th-ranked men finished with 95 points. They were behind No. 2 Syracuse who won the title with 46 points. The eight-ranked women finished just behind No. 7 Virginia with 75 points. The Cavaliers edged Pack by four with 71 points.
Baseball
UNC: Visits from Atlantic Coast Conference foes Louisville, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame as well as a pair of Power 5 non-conference series highlight the 2016 North Carolina baseball schedule. The Tar Heels, who will host 34 games at Boshamer Stadium, open the campaign at UCLA before returning to Chapel Hill to face Oklahoma State.
Following the program’s first trip to the west coast since 2011, Carolina will open its 2016 home schedule with the first of three against Oklahoma State on Feb. 26. That kicks off an 11-game homestand featuring series with Fairfield (March 4-6) and Pittsburgh (March 11-13) as well as midweek contests against Winthrop (March 2) and Gardner-Webb (March 8).
The Pitt series will mark the third consecutive season with the ACC opener at Boshamer Stadium after starting on the road every year from 2010-13. Other ACC opponents to visit Chapel Hill are Georgia Tech (March 24-26), Virginia Tech (April 8-10), Louisville (May 6-8) and Notre Dame (May 13-14, 16).
Football
ECU: East Carolina punter Worth Gregory is one of 79 candidates for the 2015 Ray Guy Award, which identifies the nation’s top collegiate punter, the Augusta Sports Council announced Friday morning.
The Fort Mill, S.C. native ranks fifth in the American Athletic Conference with a 42.8 average punting 26 times for 1,541 yards. He has booted five balls for 50-plus yards with a career-long 71-yarder against Towson, which is tied for the second-longest punt by a player in The American.
Swimming/Diving
UNC: The University of North Carolina men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams turned in a tremendous performance against Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee Friday afternoon, sweeping all three teams in dual meet action at Indiana University’s Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center.
The fifth-ranked UNC women beat 10th-ranked Tennessee 184-116, 11th-ranked Indiana 180-120 and Kentucky 218-82.
On the men’s side, the No. 12 Tar Heels slipped past the No. Hoosiers 152-146, while winning 166-134 against No. 11 Tennessee and comfortably downing Kentucky 236-64.
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This story was originally published October 30, 2015 at 7:30 PM with the headline "Notebook."